With a projected budget shortfall of more than $1 billion dollars, services funded through state tax revenues have faced steep cutbacks. Education has born its share of the cuts, with Read More »
Isaac Morris, 2014 PLP participant and current PLP counselor had a chance to shadow the employees of the National Congress of American Indians on a recent trip to Washington D.C. Read More »
This article is submitted by CPN Tribal Legislator Eva Marie Carney and appears as it did in the Women’s Bar Association of D.C. April newsletter. As a Native American woman Read More »
It’s a topic that has vexed even the most highly regarded economists and government officials; how do you incentivize a hand up before it becomes a hand out? Assistance, or Read More »
As the weather warms up and spring approaches, the time has come for eligible students to submit their application for the Potawatomi Leadership Program. Since 2003, we have invited 18-20 Read More »
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Community Development Corporation is not the kind of financial institution that worries financial regulators like the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. More often than not, it is Read More »
An exceprt from the journal of Potawatomi chronicler George Winter regarding 19th century Potawatomi leader Kee-wau-nay (Prairie Chicken). “Kee-wau-nay was a war chief, one of the old patriarchs of the Read More »
Nothing says “I love you” like a piece of jewelry. Well we’ve got quite a few new pieces in the store, including birch bark earrings and necklaces with a variety Read More »
The Oklahoma Tax Commission has lost in its attempt to unlawfully collect sales taxes from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Arbitrator Daniel J. Boudreau, former State of Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice, Read More »
Since the mid-1970s there has been a shift in federal Indian policy toward self-determination, which in general refers to the belief that Indian nations should determine their own futures. Joseph Read More »